She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!”
“What’s surprising about it?” he enquired, lifting his black brows. “Didn’t you ask me to come?”
The smile remained pinned to Lady Buxted’s lips, but she replied with more than a touch of acidity: “To be sure I did, but so many days ago that I supposed you had gone out of town!”
“Oh, no!” he said, returning her smile with one of great sweetness.
It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger,
but better visit an occasion of people we know well.
Tags: invitation stranger visit know-well occasion
Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.
Toba BetaWhenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
Vera NazarianTags: home house travel hospitality familiar foreign distant traveler wanderer visit trip backyard residence visitor
Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?"
"Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.
Tags: elderly visit cheering-up grumpy-old-man
So I find words I never thought to speak
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my body on a distant shore.
Tags: words poetry fantasy travel explore mystery shore timelessness streets visit little-gidding
These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.
Kami GarciaThe shorter the visit, the quicker you'll be invited back.
C.J. LangenhovenTags: friendship visit
There it was again: “Came in to see us”, as if it were an enjoyable little day trip that lots of people made, just because it was such a nice place to be.
Ruth ManciniTags: hospitals visit enjoyable
If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTags: friend happy anticipation afternoon visit
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